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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-72271

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:21:56 AM

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fbdev: i740fb: fix potential memory leak in i740fb_probe()

In i740fb_probe(), the memory allocated in fb_videomode_to_modelist()
for modelist is not freed in the error paths. Fix that by calling
fb_destroy_modelist().
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/146b708bc75f1e6cf70df31195632c9946cb70fd
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ede8fa708235c81ab18de14077f1a458bec7e22
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c0cf89b74e7b8ebc21a1542937c8e912d19f22b
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5936063409af230a2c88b8700c47b89a19fd70b5
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aebdbe61b3960cd22b8bb6e70e3d94fb3bbb202c
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ccf073cd4a2f783adc40b04db3805dbddaaf9f31
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3776b1bf9c100873c7365bd31a67ed6caacbd82
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1ecbaeec5fbf0b0e2d5810ec574f762d148771e
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